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Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Mexico. 1519 Panama City: Panamá: Panama First European established city on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. Founded in 1519, at the present day ruins of Panama Viejo, it was sacked by the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan in 1671, and resettled to nearby Casco Viejo, in 1673. 1520
This created many more jobs for African Americans in the city of Detroit as a lot of working men went off to war. 1918 1918 influenza epidemic. WW1 ends; 1919 - Orchestra Hall opens. 1920: Detroit becomes the 4th largest city in America; 1920s: All throughout the 1920s, patterns arose of whites beginning to define black neighborhoods by race.
In 1951 in Detroit there were about 15,000 to 17,000 U.S.-born ethnic Mexicans and 12,000 Mexican-born residents. [ 5 ] Around the 1950s/1960s, the second generation and third generation of Mexicans had been born in Michigan and their presence caused the size of the Metro Detroit Mexican community to increase.
From 1805 to 1847, Detroit was the territorial capital city of the old federal Michigan Territory (1805-1837), and later first state capital, in January 1837, when after 32 years, the old federal territory was admitted by act of the United States Congress and approved by seventh President Andrew Jackson (1769-1845, served 1829-1837), as the ...
Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. [1] Founded as a New France fur trading post, it began to expand during the 19th century with U.S. settlement around the Great Lakes. By 1920, based on the booming auto industry and ...
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A wave of immigration from Mexico in the 1990s greatly increased the number of Mexicans in Detroit. [4] In one period, Mexicantown's population increased with seasonal immigrations of about 2,000 people, while Detroit as a whole had population decreases. [6] Benedict Carey of The New York Times said that Mexicantown was "on the rise" in 2005. [7]
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